It will be conducted by Barthold Kuijken, according to a press release.
The event will take place at First United Church, and ticket prices will vary, ranging from $10 to $20 depending on if ticketholder is ?student.
The concert “The Versailles Revolution” will feature music from Jean-Baptiste Lully, an Italian-born composer made famous in the court of Louis XIV.
In 1661, Lully became the Superintendent of Music of the King’s Chamber. He directed the king’s music school and is named the creator of French opera, according to Versailles’ ?website.
“In music history, few revolutions have changed the musical landscape as much as did Lully’s creation of the French opera and the related genre of the orchestral suite. The IBO plays suites from Lully himself, his disciples Muffat and Marais and Blavet’s flute concerto, strongly showing the influence of opera,” according to the Indianapolis Baroque website.
The orchestra was named one of the top 25 ensembles in celebration of Early Music America’s 25th anniversary in 2011.
It is dedicated to “excellent and exuberant performance of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music on period instruments,” according to its website.
The orchestra was founded in 1997, and its current artistic director is Barthold Kuijken. Born in 1949, Kuijken is an internationally renowned Baroque flutist and distinguished Early Music pedagogue.
Audrey Perkins
